Indeed, and you can look at each society as a kind of a metaorganism, each one evolving in its own way based on the common world model and societal rules it creates.
I think we'll see how this plays out soon. I completely understand where you're coming from, and I also agree that it would not be rational for US to openly threaten Japan, nor is it rational for Japan to give in to the threats. At the same time, the whole trade war Trump is running is deeply irrational, and so was the proxy war with Russia. The US has already done irreversible damage to its geopolitical position, and as it continue to unravel I fully expect that we'll see increasingly unhinged flailing from the empire.
I expect that this year is going to be absolutely wild.
I see language as a compression algorithm. Our minds contain rich, multidimensional models of the world, and words act as mere labels for these complex concepts. Communication works because we share enough context to unpack these symbols. When you hear a word, it activates entire neural networks of related experiences and emotions within the brain. But the word itself is just a 2D shadow of a higher dimensional object, a lossy projection of meaning that depends entirely on shared understanding to reconstruct.
I mean it would be the dumbest move by far, but at this point I'm not gonna rule out any insanity. More seriously though, I don't think the US would have to do any sort of military action. It would be more about of coercing the subservient political class in Japan. The US still has a lot of leverage, and Japanese see themselves as being reliant on the US for protection. So, in practice it would be the threat of pulling protection that would get them in line.
Can you name anything the US has done in the past four years that hasn't been a huge mistake though?
yeah it's kind of hard to see how they can say no to US while being under literal occupation
China just stopped fossil fuels imports from US, they can get fossil fuels from Russia instead, I imagine they're actively working on substituting all other imports with domestic versions or ones from friendly countries. For example, China also just cancelled Boeing orders.
That of itself doesn't make it false though. The fact that China controls majority of rare earth supply chains is well established, and these are inputs for pretty much every bit of high tech equipment.
Yeah, but the analysis of how it hits US military supply chains is still interesting.
a grateful vassal at that
Right, the key part is that a word is basically a label that triggers activation of a set of concepts in our minds. And we each have our own concepts associated with it based on our own personal experience in life. In a way we can never convey the exact meaning of our thinking to another person. On the other hand, it's also a source of innovation because misinterpretation can lead to new ideas. If one person explains something to another, and they interpret it in a novel way then an idea that neither person originally had could be produced as a result.